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IMPROVEMENT IN SLEEVE-BUTTONS AND STUDS.

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Be it known that I, BARNES CLAYTON, of the city of Philadelphia, in the Stateof Pennsylvania, hav'e invented Aa new and useful Improvement in Sleeve-Buttons andStuds; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation Vof the same, referencebeing hadl to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specication, in which- Figure 1 is au enlarged side view cfa sh'irt-bosom stud, having my improvenrent applied Figure 2, a longitudinal vertical section of the same, as 'shown in fig. 1; and I Figure 3, the sani'e stud as when being app`lied to` the garment- Like letters and numbers of reference indicating the same parts when in the different figures.

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The object of my improvement is to afford a more reliable and appropriate self-adjusting fastening for a shirt-bosom stud or sleeve-button; and m'y invention consists 4in combining with the shank and head ofa stud orvbutton a bolt and spiralspring, in such a manner that after the shank has been 'drawn into the usual holes in the linen, by ones thumb and nger applied'to the bolt, andl then released, the bolt will be forced outward automatically so as to produce the fastening required. Y i

In the drawings, A is the' head of the stud; B its shank or stem, and C the spring bolt. The head A may be made 4of any form or fashion required for a stud, sleeve-button, or breast-pin. 'The stern or shank B is cylindrical, and projects perpendicularly from the centre of the back of the head A, The spring bolt C consists of ahollow cylinder, 1, open at both ends, (see fig. 2,) and soldered fast near one of its said ends to the projecting end ofthe shank or stem B, so as to be `parallel with the face of the head A, and contains a slide, 2, having a slender stem, 3, surrounded by a spiral spring, 4, (within the cylinder,) and provided with a fixed head, 5, on its outer end. `The opening at the free end of the hollow cylinder 1 corresponds in' size with the slender sem f3, and thus there is formed around it an abutment Yagainst which one end of the spiral spring 4 bears, whilst the other end of the saidvspring bears against a shoulder produced by the junction of the inner end of the' slide, 2 and the said stem 3. The free end of the slide 2 projects about a quarter of an'inch or more beyond the shank yor stem B, while the free end of the cylinder' 1 projects in the opposite direction about half' an inch,

more or less; and the spring 4 is capable of being compressed suliiciently to permit the projectingipartof their slide 2 to be drawn entirely in iig. 3. i

Operation: The free end of the cylinder 1 is inserted through`two small eyelet-holes made in the two parts of the'linen )vhic'h are to be connected together,A when, by means of the ends of ones thumb and linger, the

-within the cylinder 1l by the operators pulling outward the head `5, as indicated head lof the slender stem 3 is drawn `outward,`andlthus the free end of the slide 2 is drawn entirely within -the cylinder 1, allowingthe shank B to pass freely through the two eyelet-holes in the linen; after which -passage the head 5 isreleased, and the slide 2'is foreedout again by the action of the spring 4, thus securing the studin place, (see iig. 2,) the faint lines indicating the two parts of the linen held together by the studs.

lt will be seen that this invention does awa-ywith the button-holes heretofore required to benut and stitched for attaching sleeve-buttons and stu-ds and as only small eyelet-holes are required, a simple stiletto ,.which can be used without cutting the linen, will answer the purpose of making-the holes. It is, besides, very simply and easily attached and detached, and is not liable to get out of o rder in the operation.

I am,` aware that a split-spring bar has been applied in a tube fixed at a right angle to the end of the stein, and requiring that the said split-bar be pushed outward by hand in fastening the stud or-button to the linen, as in Drapers case, referred to by the ofce; therefore I do not desire to claim anything shown in the s aid Drapers fastening, butharingifully described my improvement, what I claimas new therein of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is confined to the following, via:

I claim, in combinationwith the shank andhead of a shirt-bosom stud or sleeve-button, the self-adjusting fastening, consisting-of the hollow cylinder 1, slide or bolt 2, and spiral spring 4, the same being constructed, arranged, combined, and operating together as and for the purpose described. y

BARNES CLAYTON.

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BEM. Montse-r, JAS. Wirsnonn, Jr. 

